例句
同义词解析
  • 以下这两个形容词都表示"年长的,年龄较大的" 的意思
    elder是old的比较级。指家庭成员中年龄较长的,或指两人中年龄较长的。
    older也是old的比较级,指年龄较大、较老,指物时作"较旧的"解。
英语四级真题
  • Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They have more older students than before.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • psychiatrist (心理医生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • More sleep in old age, however, is associated with better health, and most older people would feel better and more alert if they slept for longer periods, he said.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • It's definitely a myth that older people need less sleep
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • older men should quit smoking to stay healthy
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Fortunately, there are a vast number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from historic ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home.
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • A quantitative- based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have frequent contact with their children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • In most of our work, when we're looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Many of the older pieces are equipment sent to learn about the moon.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Older drivers and visually- or physically-impaired people would gain a new level of freedom.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Older people and women made the mistake slightly more often, but that may be because grandparents have more grandchildren to mix up than parents have children.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation,  familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation,  accustomed to an industrial society.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel- related technologies than older ones.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • This research may be biased, however, as ill health often makes older people more dependent and thereby increases contact with family members.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • We know that as we get older, it's easier for us to get infections, so older adults have more chances of falling ill.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • When people live longer, they are not only older for longer, but also younger for longer.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • With older populations, they resist change.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • After all, older people themselves mostly have families.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • The reason why employers are unwilling to keep older workers is that younger workers are readily available.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to be innovative and take risks than younger ones
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • In a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that about 20% said they were hostile or indifferent to ward their sisters and brothers.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people to put aside bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • What did the man who had recently reconciled with his brother tell Debra Gold about older people
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Care for older people faced persistent criticism as these trends became apparent.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Older adults need to take in more protein to keep their muscles strong.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • simultaneously, the number of sick older people grew.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • This required local governments to provide residential accommodation for older people and supervise care homes run by independent organizations.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Today's crisis in care for older people in England has two main causes.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Adjective
    1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
    "aged members of the society""elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper""senior citizen"
    2. older brother or sister;
    "big sister"
    3. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son;
    "Bill Adams, Sr."
    4. old in experience;
    "an old offender""the older soldiers"